About the piece

FOR FOUR RIDERS is a work that talks about the body that is capable of containing time… a
body that is both rider and horse, riding the fictions of our past, present and future in a
humble attempt to better understand who we are and what we are doing.

Someone will remember us, I affirm, even in another age.
SAPPHO

We have been studying the history of Spanish dance and folklore all our lives and, in some
sense, it has always seemed alien to us. To domesticate and academise life, celebration,
customs, is always a complex task. But lately, perhaps because we have gained some
distance from the school, we have been falling in love again with this body that searches,
that breaks down, that desperately tries to join other bodies, over and over again, through
the centuries. With our first piece we were looking for mothers, fathers, referents, in the
Sinsombrero, the women of the Generation of ’27. With this second piece, which any artist
fears, we continue looking for answers a little further away. Is it possible to speak beyond
time? Are we capable, at this moment, of simply listening? Is it possible to imagine the
dance of the future? Val del Omar used to say that you have to enter the night to be
illuminated by fire. For us, folklore is the night of this project: an immense, mysterious and
often confusing place, widened by legends, rites, festivals and dances that we have created
around it throughout history.

We will never fully know how it was danced, and perhaps we no longer care. And perhaps
we no longer care. Is it possible that two centuries ago people sang to rockets that had not
yet been invented? Can a tattoo remain on the body for more than three thousand years?
Tonight at least it does.

And, who knows, if Sappho was right, maybe this will also be folklore for someone when we
are no longer here. Let us believe it will. Anyway, we will never know; neither will you. For
that very reason, let us dance on this dance ground until dawn. Let us exist fiercely or at
least tenderly, humbly and desperately.